terrorists must be eliminated from this region in the sahel. ladies and gentlemen, the role of the united nations is to respond to urgent situations, but not only urgent situations, there is another ambition which should bring us all together. that is development. the rio conference, in which i participated, was a step that was disappointing for some encouraging for others. i think that today we have an agenda which should make it possible to bring together economic growth, the reduction of poverty, social progress, environmental protection, what we need to do over the long term is the following. we have a deadline set for 2015 with regard to the climate. i am announcing that france is ready at that time to host the u.s. -- un conference on climate change. i want us to succeed together, to be able to tackle these challenges. in parallel, i would recall that one of the disappointing factors in a rio was that we were not able to agree on the creation of the united nations organization for the environment. a major agency -- that continues to be fr